DELAYED POSTING FROM EIDFJORD NORWAY
Eidfjord, Norway
I remember the unbounded eagerness I had the first time I awoke in a tent in the New Mexico desert anticipating a journey to the farthest reaches of Carlsbad Caverns. Awaking to first light at 3:30 PM today provided a similar delicious anticipation. Six thousand foot granite walls frosted with glaciers are not the usual backdrop to my mornings in South Carolina, but the actualization of my creative absence includes a geographic cure.
Seeing the Eidfjord on a calendar page is very different than the holographic sensibility one experiences after a climb a thousand feet up the nearest escarpment. As I take in the vistas about me I wonder about life. In some respects that wondering seems easier here.
It’s easier to gain clarity when one can step back far enough to achieve clear vision. So often when we are down in our sometimes-over challenging circumstances we are too close to focus on a solution. It’s when we step back and simply say, “God I’m done now, You can start” that we begin to see Him do some amazing things in our lives. Owning our own powerlessness can be the most powerful thing we ever do.
Standing here on deck at late sunset seeing this surreal landscape is a physical metaphor for seeing spiritually. As magnificent as it is to see this crystalline realm, how much grander is being able to see God’s will crystallize in my life. When I decide to let God do the choosing, I get His best. I’m not sure why it is I’ve so often been allowed to end up in these physical paradises when so many people are in major struggles every day just to get by. What I do know is God doesn’t play favorites and there is a form of gold at the end of every rainbow for each of us.
I know when I leave this heavenly land in the far north and journey back to the torrid American south, I’m going to be returning to a place filled with many precious nuggets of gold. I can name many of you. On this journey I’ve heard from more than a hundred of you, some of you daily or more. What’s made this journey so rich has been the opportunity to share big chunks of it in real time with the real gold in my life.
In a certain sense the rainbows in Eidfjord are nothing more than plays on light we can never touch. What’s certain is I can touch and hug so many of you when I make the leap of faith and allow myself to be placed exactly where God thinks I will do best. For now that will be back in that little speck of a town in South Carolina the people in Aselund have never heard of. I suspect a rainbow just might show up in some desperately needed rain there.
As I contemplate an eventual return home I find myself with the same eagerness of spirit I had decades ago when I went to Carlsbad Caverns. Eidfjord is wondrous. Carlsbad is wondrous, but the will of God is the best place on earth of all. For me I know exactly where that is; I just get to bask in some pretty spectacular sights along the way home.
Watch for rainbows.
Blessings,
Craig C. Johnson
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